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Paris Psalter Paris Psalter Old English Version
Anonymous; prose once attributed to Alfred · 1050 · Scripture
The Paris Psalter is an important Old English Psalter, so called from the manuscript in which it survives, that presents the Psalms in two forms: a prose translation of the opening portion…
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Traditionally associated with William of Shoreham · 1320 · Scripture
The Shoreham Psalter stands among the significant pre-Wycliffite Middle English efforts to render the Psalms into the vernacular. Its scope is limited to the Psalms, translated from Latin, taking a Latin Psalter…
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Richard Rolle · 1340 · Scripture
Attributed to the fourteenth-century English hermit and religious writer Richard Rolle, this Psalter stands among the major pre-Wycliffite Middle English prose translations of the Bible. Its scope is confined to the Psalms,…
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Wycliffite Bible Wycliffite Bible — Early Version
Wycliffite circle; traditionally linked with John Wycliffe and Nicholas Hereford · 1382 · Scripture
The Early Version of the Wycliffite Bible is the first complete translation of the Bible into English, produced in the late fourteenth century within the circle of followers associated with the Oxford…
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Wycliffite Bible Wycliffite Bible — Later Version
Wycliffite revisers; traditionally linked with John Purvey · 1388 · Scripture
The Later Version of the Wycliffite Bible is the most widely copied medieval English Bible and a major vernacular precursor to Reformation translation. Covering the complete Bible, it was translated from Latin…
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Archbishop Gennadius and collaborators · 1491 · Scripture
The Gennadius Bible, which takes its name from Archbishop Gennady of Novgorod, is the first complete compilation of the Bible in Church Slavonic, and it forms an important bridge to the first…
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Novum Instrumentum Erasmus — Novum Instrumentum / Novum Testamentum
Desiderius Erasmus · 1516 · Scripture
First published under the title Novum Instrumentum and in later editions as Novum Testamentum, this pivotal Greek-Latin New Testament directly enabled Reformation-era vernacular translation. Its scope is the New Testament, translated from…
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Martin Luther · 1522 · Scripture
A landmark vernacular Bible, the Luther Bible presents a complete Protestant Bible translated from Hebrew and Greek, drawing on the Hebrew Old Testament and the Erasmus/Greek New Testament as its base texts.…
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Tyndale Bible Tyndale New Testament and Old Testament Portions
William Tyndale · 1525 · Scripture
William Tyndale's translation stands as a foundational source for the later English Bible, and much of his wording survives in the King James Version and beyond. In scope it comprises the complete…
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Santes Pagninus · 1528 · Scripture
Among the earliest complete Latin Bibles of the Renaissance to be rendered directly from Hebrew and Greek rather than merely revising the Vulgate, the Pagninus Bible belongs to the humanist movement to…
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Jacques Lefèvre d'Étaples · 1530 · Scripture
Associated with the French humanist scholar Jacques Lefèvre d'Étaples, this sixteenth-century undertaking produced an early complete printed French Bible and stands as an important milestone in continental vernacular Scripture. Covering the complete…
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Leo Jud, Huldrych Zwingli and Zürich scholars · 1531 · Scripture
A major Swiss Reformation Bible, produced in Zürich in the circle of reformers gathered around that city's church, the Zürich Bible was one of the important continental aids used by Miles Coverdale…
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Miles Coverdale · 1535 · Scripture
The Coverdale Bible, the work of Miles Coverdale and printed in 1535, was the first complete printed Bible in English. Its scope is the whole Bible, but it was not drawn from…
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Pierre Robert Olivétan · 1535 · Scripture
The Olivétan Bible was the first major French Protestant Bible to be translated substantially from the original languages. A complete Protestant Bible rendered from Hebrew and Greek, it took Hebrew and Greek…
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John Rogers ('Thomas Matthew'), using Tyndale and Coverdale · 1537 · Scripture
The Matthew Bible, published in 1537 and generally attributed to John Rogers under the name "Thomas Matthew," was the first complete English Bible to draw on Tyndale's translations on a large scale…
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Miles Coverdale, revising Matthew Bible under Thomas Cromwell's sponsorship · 1539 · Scripture
The Great Bible was the first English Bible officially authorized for public use in churches, and it stands as a landmark in the emergence of an English scriptural tradition sanctioned by the…
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Richard Taverner · 1539 · Scripture
Taverner's Bible, the work of the English scholar Richard Taverner, was a learned but relatively short-lived revision of Matthew's Bible, published in 1539. Covering the complete Bible, it was drawn from Greek…
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Sephardic Jewish translators/editors · 1553 · Scripture
The Ferrara Bible holds a landmark place in the history of scripture in the vernacular as the first complete printed Jewish Spanish translation of the Hebrew Bible. Its scope is the Hebrew…
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William Whittingham and English exiles in Geneva · 1557 · Scripture
Produced by English Protestant exiles working in the orbit of continental Reformed scholarship, the Geneva New Testament served as the immediate precursor to the complete Geneva Bible and proved influential in English…
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English Protestant exiles; including William Whittingham, Anthony Gilby, Thomas Sampson · 1560 · Scripture
Produced by English Protestant exiles in Geneva and first published in 1560, this version became the dominant English household Bible before the King James Version and a landmark study Bible. It presents…
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Polish Calvinist scholars · 1563 · Scripture
The Brest Bible was the first major Protestant Polish Bible to be translated from the original languages, and it remains a landmark in the history of vernacular Scripture in Poland. Published in…
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Committee of Church of England bishops under Matthew Parker · 1568 · Scripture
The Bishops' Bible was the Church of England's official answer to the Geneva Bible, produced under episcopal oversight and closely associated with episcopal authority. Covering the complete Bible, it drew on Hebrew,…
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Bear Bible Reina Bible / Biblia del Oso
Casiodoro de Reina · 1569 · Scripture
The Reina Bible, commonly called the Biblia del Oso, is a foundational Spanish Protestant Bible, produced by Casiodoro de Reina and published in 1569. Rather than adapting an existing version, it offered…
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Unity of the Brethren scholars · 1579 · Scripture
The Bible of Kralice is a landmark Czech Bible, produced by scholars of the Unity of Brethren and named for the Moravian town of Kralice, where it was printed in the later…
